Newspaper reports indicate that Macron has been a privileged interlocutor with the company. The issue has already taken on political dimensions in France
There was a first reaction this morning from the Champs-Élysées regarding the publications of several European newspapers about the mode of operation in the transport sector of the UBER company and whether and how much Emmanuel Macron was in France her privileged interlocutor during the period 2014-2016 when he was in the Ministry of Finance, during the presidency of François Hollande.
According to an “answer in principle” given by the presidency of the Republic to questions from the newspaper Le Monde which brought the matter to the public in France, Emmanuel Macron, as minister “of course he was at that time in contacts with the companies involved in the profound changes in the transport services sector, facilitating the removal of some administrative or regulatory obstacles”.
The issue has already taken on political dimensions in France with the opposition considering Macron’s activities at the time as problematic, while at the same time the French National Assembly is today considering the motion of censure submitted last week by the parties of the left, which according to all indications will not outvoted.
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